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Everything I Knew About Dating I Learned From 19th Century Novels. Huge Mistake.
BuzzFeed Video - If Dudes Catcalled Dudes. “I am No Man” Doesn’t Cut It: The Story of Eowyn. What is The Bechdel-Wallace Test and Why Does It Matter?
Recently, the lack of female representation behind the scenes and in front of the camera in the entertainment industry has become a hot topic.

Whether it’s pay discrepancies between actors and actresses or the lack of diverse characters, we’re finally talking about what’s been apparent for so long: women aren’t represented in the media to the degree that they exist in the world. Recognition of the issue has grown throughout 2015 and for good reason! The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found that in popular movies across 11 countries, only 31% of speaking roles are occupied by females.
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40 times ladies ruled the world in 2015. 6 Reasons Telling Women Their Power Is in Their Sexuality Is Not Empowering. Men Explain Lolita to Me. Warming up to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”: What my mother taught me about the guy who wrote the “date-rape” Christmas song. I brace myself for it every year.

Come December, before the first snowfall, we’ll see a flurry of articles about “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” now often called the “date-rape song.”
Listening While Feminist: In Defense of “Baby It’s Cold Outside”
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this featured post from our archives.

I’m a pretty voracious consumer and critic of American popular culture.
Your Guide to Surviving Awkward Family Conversations about Sexism. Now our vaginas are being photoshopped. Great. The 10th most read post on Mamamia this year, was about a different kind of photoshopping.

Femicide is predictable and preventable but we need to name the problem. “They both went over the railing,” CTV reported on December 20th, describing the deaths of Robert Giblin, 43, and Precious Charbonneau, 33, days before Christmas.

No they didn’t. Giblin first stabbed his pregnant partner seven times. Then he threw her 21 flights to the ground, ensuring her death.
On Male Privilege. 10 Anti-Feminist Trolls You'll Meet on the Internet – And What They're Really Saying. As Subtle as the Pose – Jennifer Moss. About ten years ago when the internet bubble popped, I took up a new career to pay the rent.

I had a good camera back before everyone had one on their phones. Fortunately I was in L.A., so I hung out my shingle and started doing headshots and model portfolios and was fairly decent at it. I was eventually published. I worked with many beginning models, some of whom eventually “made it” in the fashion industry.
Egypt PSA: Put yourself in her shoes, instead of finding ways to blame her. Mohamed Ghilan - Journal. 48 Things Men Hear In A Lifetime (That Are Bad For Everyone)
Aesthetic labiaplasty is never just a 'choice'
10 Types of Misogynist Men We All Need to Know About – And Then Call Out!
The battle against 'sexist' sci-fi and fantasy book covers.

Lynsea Garrison finds one fantasy author aiming to zap gender stereotypes. Jim Hines straddles the remnants of a defeated alien species (a table), and clasps a pistol (a toy gun) as he triumphantly raises a cyborg's head (a toaster). Sometimes he fights battles alongside his romantic interest (a large teddy bear). But no matter the mission, Hines shows some flesh. Just because he is waging a war, it does not mean he cannot be alluring at the same time, right? Hines, a fantasy author, is posing like some of the female characters on science fiction and fantasy book covers he says objectify women. He gets into character by twisting his body into the same contorted positions as the female characters on the books.
Video Calls Out Sexism In Advertising By Showcasing Ads That Objectify Women. Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language.

Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.

If I say “pop”, your mental rolodex will begin whirring away, coming up with candidates for what might follow. “Music”, “song” or “star”, are highly likely.
Teenage Girl Blossoming Into Beautiful Object. ARLINGTON, TX—Calling the transformation both delightful and stunning, friends and family members confirmed Tuesday that 17-year-old Ashley Parker was blossoming into an absolutely gorgeous object.

According to Parker’s relatives, in the span of 14 months, the high school junior underwent a staggering metamorphosis from a young girl with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations into a truly stunning commodity. “Ashley has really developed into quite a striking assemblage of physical attributes that are found to be sexually attractive in our culture,” said Parker’s uncle Keith Hayes, expressing astonishment at how his niece had steadily matured from a precocious youth into a shapely, ravishing thing devoid of intellect and personality. “It’s hard to believe that she used to be that little girl [capable of subjective experiences] that I remember.
"This Week in Modesty Culture: Who Wore It Modest-est?" by L.P. - The Salt Collective.

I’ve written in the past about modesty culture— —Again?

Omg this person is OBSESSED with modesty…
Nocookies. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser There is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently making requests to websites without cookies that had previously been set. This appears to be a defect in the browser which should be addressed soon. The simplest approach to avoid this problem is to continue to use the Facebook app but not use the in-app browser. This can be done through the following steps: Open the settings menu by clicking the hamburger menu in the top rightChoose “App Settings” from the menuTurn on the option “Links Open Externally” (This will use the device’s default browser) Windows Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 9 Open the Internet BrowserClick Tools (or “gear” icon at top right hand corner) > Internet Options > Privacy > AdvancedCheck Override automatic cookie handlingFor First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click AcceptClick OK and OK Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 10, 11.

Male scientists described in same demeaning way as female scientists. You know the stories about how close Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger came to never marrying? Chances are you haven't heard them, because nobody ever talks about Schrödinger's marriage when they discuss his work. The same can't be said for female scientists, however. Twitter user Daurmith jumped on this by writing short bios for some of science's most famous men, but in the condescending manner typically employed for female scientists.

This meant putting all the focus on the scientists' family lives, their looks and the sheer amazement that they were so brilliant despite being men. They were originally published in Spanish, but were posted again in English once they began gaining popularity.
All this and more in 30 minutes - Collective Shout. What will 30 minutes at Chadstone Shopping Centre tell us about our pornified culture? Last Friday night I headed to Chadstone Shopping Centre to catch up with some of my colleagues from Collective Shout. I was there a little early and decided to browse the stores while I waited for the others to arrive. I expected to see the odd front window or billboard using the same old tired exploitation of women, but the proliferation of sexualised and objectifying images right throughout the centre was quite overwhelming.

It started with Bras’N’Things.
What Russell Brand Says About Porn Is Shocking—and Makes 100% Perfect Sense. Cool Story, Bro. Judged purely on style, HBO’s “True Detective” is a great show. Every week, it offers up shiver-inducing cable intoxicants, from an over-the-top action sequence so liquid it rivals a Scorsese flick to piquant scenes of rural degradation, filmed on location in Louisiana, a setting that has become a bit of an HBO specialty.

(“Treme” and “True Blood” are also set there.) Like many critics, I was initially charmed by the show’s anthology structure (eight episodes and out; next season a fresh story) and its witty chronology, which chops and dices a serial-killer investigation, using two time lines.
Being Woman. Nobel Prize - Women who changed the world.
Photo of the Day: When 90 percent of Iceland’s women went on strike in 1975. Thousands of striking women gather in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1975. (Image via)
UNICEF - Journal. A Letter to Young Christian Feminists - The Junia Project. My Dear Sisters, Welcome! You have no idea how grateful we are to have you join us in the struggle for women’s full equality. As young Christian feminists you join a company of women and men dedicated to the cause of moving beyond the Curse and its dark shadow cast upon Eve’s daughters.

Refinery29 - Journal. This Parody of What The Game of "Life" for Girls Would Be Like is Everything - Comedy Central's Glass Ceiling Game For Girls Is Great. Growing Up in Pornland: Girls Have Had It with Porn Conditioned Boys - Collective Shout. Pope Francis: We must “see in the women’s movement the working of the Spirit.”
For many people, the Catholic perspective on marriage and family life is a fraught subject. Official statements and, to varying degrees, the work of professional theologians and popular thinkers can seem to fall short of the complex, lived realities and diversity of familial circumstances in the lives of members of the Body of Christ.

'Get your arse out, mate': we turn the tables on everyday sexism – video. Omeleto - Journal. Girls going wild in red light district. Growing Up in a Pornified Culture. Justin Trudeau Teaches Men How To Be Better Feminists In 10 Seconds. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues his crusade in raising the equality bar. On Saturday, he met the four millennial men behind Generation Y Not for an interview on feminism, and specifically how men can be more effective at it.

As part of it, Trudeau was asked to answer, in 10 seconds or less, what advice he would give men to become better feminists.
This reporter turned the tables on a group of men who tried to disrupt her work, and it's awesome.
See the full FHRITP story.
BuzzFeed Books - Journal. Elliot Rodger, And The Dark Heart Of Men’s Rights Activism.

Last Friday night in Isla Vista, California, a young man named Elliot Rodger stabbed his three flatmates to death before driving through the streets in his black BMW, shooting randomly at members of the public.
HuffPost Women - Journal. Emmy Kegler: Do you see this woman?: a preaching commentary on rape culture, Bathsheba, and the use of grace. Films For Action - Journal. Absurd propaganda postcards warning men about the dangers of women’s rights, early 1900s. Nine inspiring lessons the suffragettes can teach feminists today. Nine inspiring lessons the suffragettes can teach feminists today. Lesson Plan: A Survey of the Women's Liberation Movement.

Fitzroy High School Feminist Collective – Fighting back against sexism in schools. Change the story: A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence - Our Watch. Action for gender and social justice through education. FHS Feminist Collective. Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting. Comment: Watch what happens when men are Photoshopped out of politics.